Seed Bed

[mogs]

Having finally succeeded in rearing some Brassica plants in a seed bed I'm now thinking ahead of myself to next year, as you do if you are an obsessive planner like myself - failing to plan is planning to fail and all that My question is as to whether I just use the same seed bed next year, the spot I've chosen is ideal size, raised and of a fine tilth, or do I have to move to somewhere else for fear of clubroot or disease etc? If I can stay, do I do anything over the winter to improve the seed bed, or just leave well alone?

[jacob marley]

Well the ideal thing would be to grow something on the patch like lettuce , Radish's, or spring Onions any thing that do's not stay on the ground through the winter .
When the ground is clear in the autumn dig it over and leave it rough for the winter and the frost will break it down if you have any compost or FYM dig that and it will help....jacob

[Snadger]

I have a similar dilemma! My brasica seed bed is only 1 metre square so I found it quite easy to change the soil to a spades depth!

[Alison]

I grow my brassicas in modules to avoid this problem but they are in the seed bed for a pretty short period of time over the life of the brassica so you should be OK and as said above you can grow things inbetween.